>Remember everything about RosaYou met Rosa once while you were playing Pirates vs Imperial Navy in the yard with your other friends (she was playing as the princess). Since then, she'd come over pretty much every day. She was popular at school, and ALWAYS had some short snippet of vile and uninteresting gossip to share with you, or some story that was too long and boring to remember. Her voice was annoyingly high-pitched. Her laugh was too loud. Her chats were stupid and superficial. You never liked her. You two hung out for a couple years until you brother went off for training. After that, her family had to move to somewhere because of something (you really couldn't care less), and you had never seen her again. You lived happily ever after. Until now.

>Have a polite chat with RosaYou kind of don't want to do that right now.

>Run away for your life. Rosa looks less than friendlyYep. This sounds like a good idea. You start to climb off the beast to get on another one, when she grabs your hand. She's smiling. God, you know that smile. It's that "I'm gonna start going on about nothing in particular" smile."Keep yourself steady, all right? It's a long drop."She drags you up onto the beast's back."Hey, what are you doing here, anyway? I thought you wouldn't be a big fan of travel, really! You don't want to miss where we're going now that you're here, though. You'll love it!"

>Find a way to kill Rosa. She's probably insane or came back from the dead. LOOK SHE HAS THOSE SOULLESS EYESWoah there, buddy! You're not about to kill Rosa just because she can be obnoxious sometimes! Good lord, you're trigger-happy, aren't you?She IS looking kinda weird, though, isn't she?"Hey, Ember! You hungry? Look at all the provisions I have for this trip!" Your train of thought is interrupted by her (shrill, annoying) voice. There's a bunch of stuff on the floor now. Great.Oh, wait.You guess she does kinda look different.

>Run away for your life. The farther away from Risa and those beasts, the better.You try and break free from the strange energy keeping you in midair. It's hard, but after a lot of struggling, you fall to the ground. The effort has worn you out! (-5 hp)You fall flat on your face once you reach a distance you believe is far away from the beasts. Excruciating pain shoots up your leg all of a sudden. You cover your face with your hands and try to scream, but the only thing that comes up is a hacking sob. (-10 HP)You have no idea where you are.

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>Scream for help. Help is what you need most.You try to stand up, to no avail. A low, guttural growl escapes from your throat."RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-"

>look up now you wimpy little girl. Why didn't you show that Rosa who's boss?"ROSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"You hear a high-pitched swish, and all of a sudden Rosa is in front of you, smiling knowingly. God, you are just about ready to show her what's what. This is gonna be good.In your current state, however, all you manage to do is some sort of half-slap.You pass out.When you wake up, you are riding the beast again. You are probably under the influence of fifty different sedatives, pain relievers, procoagulants, ibufroxypoxins, and antibacterial soaps. Even then, your leg is still bleeding like crazy and you are pretty sure you are hallucinating half of what you see. Your foot is missing, Rosa's voice is hard to hear, and you feel some pre-vomit building up in your mouth. Rosa's mouth is bloody around the edges, and you feel the unique sense of pride that comes with being an improvised amputee (it might just be the medication). You can hear Rosa laughing. "We'll be at our destination within 20 minutes, Ember! Are you feeling better? Hey maybe you can get like some sorta pegleggy thingy, right? I mean, the Pirates don't even wear those, but, you know, we kind of don't have prosthetics or anything around here."Several questions run through your mind. It's not like you can muster up the energy to do anything but throw up, so you guess you can spare a conversation. (respond to this post with a question)A) Wait, you knew the Pirates?B) What happened to you? Why do you look like this now?C) DID YOU SERIOUSLY CHEW OFF MY LEG OH MY GOD OH MY GOD D) Other (anything else you're interested in. I'm ready for exposition)

>DID YOU SERIOUSLY CHEW OFF MY LEG OH MY GOD OH MY GOD> WHAT THE- WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY LEG?!Rosa uses the weird bandana things on her arms to wipe her mouth clean."Listen, Ember, if I hadn't done this then chances are you would've died! Your foot was gonna get all necrotic and infected and that's just no good at all. Why are you all mad at me? I stopped most of the bleeding and you should really say thank you."She winks in a way that is just friendly enough to make you uncomfortable.

>what happened to you? why do you look like this now?Rosa looks pretty confused."Your teeth, Rosa! And your eyes! They look weird!" Rosa looks even more confused. You gesture towards her old picture. "You don't look like that any more!" "Well, duh! I was like ten years old back then!" You groan and cover your face with your hands.

>Other: Can I leave now?"Yeah! We just got to where we're supposed to be, after all!"You hadn't been paying attention to your surroundings, but now that you look around you see a great city rise before you at daybreak. It is absolutely quiet. There are no cars on the roads, no people in the houses, no buzzing telephone lines. Rosa jumps off the beast.